Cinematical has some quick news bites: Nathan Fillion will voice Hal Jordan in the animated film Green Lantern: Emerald Knights. Also, there's going to be a How to Train Your Dragon 2 about Hiccup becoming the leader of his Viking clan. Poppy and I watched the original How to Train Your Dragon a little while ago, and although it was very predictable, it was also entertaining and surprisingly moving.

In case you somehow missed hearing about this somewhere else, Gawker got itself hacked. If you have a commenting profile on one of its sites, you probably want to go in and change your password.

A new trailer for Thor is online. It has good bits and bad bits. Most of the bad bits happen when people say things. Which doesn't bode well, as I imagine there will be a good deal of talking in the movie. I'm still hoping it will somehow be an entertaining film, however.

Super Punch is having another art contest, and I can't wait to see the submissions this time: the task is to "create a movie poster, or concept art, or custom toy, or any other work of art for Stanley Kubrick's Lord of the Rings, starring The Beatles." This was an actual film project at one point! If only it had actually happened.

Fëanor pours the entire internet into the Recyclotron, and only the best links come out the other end for you to enjoy.

By the way, beware clicking through to io9 today. They have a really evil ad for the video game Fairytale Fights on the site that repeatedly opens a pop-up window, whether you have a pop-up blocker on or not. To stop the ad, right-click it, and uncheck "Play." I was actually vaguely interested in Fairytale Fights, but now I hate it on principle.

It is perhaps childish, but I found the above altered clip from Star Wars to be absolutely hilarious. (Via)

"In an effort to push consumers toward buying more movies, some major film studios are considering a new policy that would block DVDs from being offered for rental until several weeks after going on sale." D'oh. Considering how long it takes me to get it together and watch movies these days, this really has no effect on me, but I can see how it would be irksome to other film fans. It feels like another wrong-headed, desperate move by a crumbling empire that wants a changing world to go back to the way it used to be. (Via)

The first eight minutes of V. This reminds me a lot of the first episode of FlashForward - intercutting between different characters and situations while slowly building to the shocking, world-changing event. Fun bit: Jesus almost kills a guy! I also like the kid who trashes Independence Day. Overall pretty good.

Two German scientists say they've broken the speed of light by sending microwave photons instantaneously between a pair of prisms via a phenomenon called quantum tunneling, "which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws." I don't understand even one small part of that, but it sounds awesome.

13 kick-ass moments from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some good picks, although I have to disagree with "Spike goes soul-searching" (I hated that Joss played the "vampire-with-a-soul" card a second time), "Buffy the Turok-Han Slayer" (one of the low points of the series, in my opinion, as Buffy defeats a vampire she previously could not defeat by... fighting it again. Uh... what?), and the destruction of Sunnydale (pretty much everything in that final episode is crap).

One cool thing about those Microsoft stores: they "allow shoppers to order a Games for Windows title, leave their name with a customer service representative, then have the game, case, insert and other accouterments printed on the spot in under four minutes."

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